"The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself." Happy birthday to the great comparative anatomist Georges Cuvier. He was born in 1769.

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Morning warmup sketch. Gomphotheres of South America. Notiomastodon (left) and Cuvieronius (right). Both elephant relatives ived alongside the first human inhabitants in the Americas for thousands of years until they went extinct.

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It’s been another great couple of days for our Cruise Conservationists & passengers on board the Azura in the Mediterranean, with over 300 dolphins seen yesterday & 5 Cuvier’s beaked whales!

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Malayan tapirs were first described to Western science by Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest in 1819 - seven years after Georges Cuvier discounted the likelihood of “discovering new species of the larger quadrupeds” - and Baird's tapirs weren't described until 1865.

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More for . Here's the large Chalk pterosaur Cimoliopterus cuvieri, a species that inspired (at least in part) the larger CP pterosaur models. This image is an updated one from my 2013 book (actually drawn in 2011: it took time to get that book together).

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今週のカレンダー イタチザメ Galeocerdo cuvier https://t.co/NFVwYOAsJ8

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Monday, Here is the direct relationship between Georges-Frédéric Cuvier and Leopold Blaschka? you cna see the drawing and glass copy

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...and for the second half Xinpusaurus, Cuvieronius, Cabarzia

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Bear hug? Cuvier's ursine king of the iceberg has his opponent firmly pinned beneath him https://t.co/sQJNFQPEh3 1863

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~> Year of the Tapir. In 1812, Baron George Cuvier made what the cryptozoologist Bernard Heuvelmans called his "Rash Dictum": he said that it was unlikely that any large animal remained undiscovered. In 1819, the Malayan Tapir was discovered. ~

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Common Spiny Lobster (Palinurus elephas). (plate unsigned) from Cuvier's Animal Kingdom, Vol. 3: Mollusca, Annelides, Crustacea, Arachnides and Insecta (1834), by Pierre André Latreille. Contributed to by the of the : https://t.co/WUwFSn8W13

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"The Tufted-tailed or Mountain Kanguroo" (Georges Cuvier, 1827) https://t.co/K2PrNuOBJx via

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"Histoire Naturelle des Poissons" (1828-1849) by Cuvier & Valenciennes attempted to catalog all known The 22 volumes feature nearly 5,000 fish. Explore it in via : https://t.co/B09t4JSVEj

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Tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier)

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Sketches of my other D&D character using Cuvier's Dwarf Caiman as my main inspiration for her design, and photos for reference 🐊

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There are 22 species of beaked whale in UK. Cuvier's beaked whale dives deeper & longer than any other mammal. Learn more about UK species with UK Species Inventory Project https://t.co/jlYuSrVJQ1

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Amongst all this brilliant colour is a single uncoloured plate (Cuvier's The Animal Kingdom via ) https://t.co/2bGGcakuNU

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There are a lot of blue animals in 's Cuvier: bears, squirrels, seals & leopards! https://t.co/4fFv94TAUS

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First published in Dec 1816 Georges Cuvier's Le Regne Animal https://t.co/NuWbdpWeWd

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